Karl Schrader House
The Karl Schrader House is a listed building in Berlin-Wedding . The corner building, built in 1904–1906 on the property at Malplaquetstrasse 14–16B at the corner of Liebenwalder Strasse 35–36 A, is one of the exemplary cooperative reform housing developments of the early 20th century. It was named after Karl Schrader , the founder of the Berliner Baugenossenschaft eG (bbg).
history
The Berliner Baugenossenschaft eG was founded on May 16, 1886 with 28 cooperative members, making it the oldest housing cooperative in Berlin. At the same time, it was the first socially oriented building cooperative that laid the foundation for the non-profit housing industry in Berlin alongside the “Berliner Baugesellschaft” (since 1848). The cooperative initially built family houses in the Berlin suburbs. The first two-family house in Adlershof was completed in autumn 1886, and the number of members had risen to 58. The second house was completed in 1887, another six in 1888, and eighteen in 1889. On January 1, 1890, the cooperative had 652 members. However, the houses were too expensive for simple working-class families, which is why a move was made to building large residential complexes with cheap workers' apartments in densely built-up areas. The Karl Schrader House was the first building project of its kind.
The residential complex was designed by the important Art Nouveau architects Hugo Sonnenthal and Friedrich Kristeller . It is oriented around three green inner courtyards. While most of the reform apartment buildings of that time still clung to the closed building block, the middle courtyard opens onto Malplaquetstrasse to provide more apartments with light and air. The house originally comprised 192 residential units with one to three rooms, a kitchen and indoor toilet, which were arranged according to a complicated floor plan. Some apartments already had their own bathroom. In addition, there was a library and a bathing establishment for the residents in the courtyard of the residential complex. Most apartments have a balcony and are pinned through from the courtyard to the street, so that cross ventilation is possible.
The facade is structured on the rounded front side by means of a tape with Art Nouveau ornamentation and the name Karl Schrader. The architects designed elegant, representative facades, which do not reveal that the apartments were kept very small. With the forged lattice of the inner courtyard, the striped ashlar on the lower floors, the decorated window frames, bay windows and balconies, decorative fields and festoons, the Karl Schrader House resembles stately residential buildings in the west of Berlin. Last but not least, the rich Art Nouveau ornaments, such as stylized masks, women's heads and garlands, testify to the high social standards. The head building at the intersection, flanked by tower-like bay windows with curved roof hoods, dominates the small triangular town square where Amsterdamer Strasse, Liebenwalder Strasse and Malplaquetstrasse meet.
In 1944 the building was partially destroyed and rebuilt in 1953. In the course of the state modernization program 1981/82 the house was extensively modernized and restored between 1980 and 1984. The destroyed roof tops of the bay windows were also restored. The repair is an example of a careful urban renewal. A bust and a plaque in the courtyard remind of Karl Schrader and his achievements. The Karl-Schrader-Haus today comprises 166 apartments and 3 commercial units as well as a cooperative office, a laundry room and a communal room. The residential complex is a listed building.
literature
- Renate Amann, Barbara von Neumann-Cosel: A reform island in stone Berlin. 90 years of the Karl Schrader House of BBG Berliner Baugenossenschaft eG Edition Arkadien, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930075-15-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Monument database. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on August 28, 2016 .
- ↑ About us. In: bbg-eg.de. bbg Berliner Baugenossenschaft , accessed on August 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Karl Schrader House. In: luise-berlin.de. Berliner Bezirkslexikon, October 7, 2009, accessed on August 28, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 6.3 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 29" E